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Much of the money is diffucult to recover by being tied up in byzantine arrangements of LLCs and overseas accounts. That's generally how the rich avoid paying t
by cultus 6y ago
Much of the money is diffucult to recover by being tied up in byzantine arrangements of LLCs and overseas accounts. That's generally how the rich avoid paying taxes as well.
We have due process for the privileged. Tell all of the poor defendants who have been held in Rikers for over a year without a trial that they have due process.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> Much of the money is diffucult to recover by being tied up in byzantine arrangements of LLCs and overseas accounts Yet this reporter was able to assemble the trail from court documents. For every person creating Byzantine structures there are several adept at untangling them. > Tell all of the poor defendants who have been held in Rikers for over a year without a trial Not arguing that they aren’t getting an advantage. Just that there is zero evidence so far that they’re going to get away with it. Also, New York has abolished cash bail. If someone is in pre-trial detention, it’s because they were deemed to be a flight risk. Not because they couldn’t afford bail. (EDIT: Never mind, we rolled back most of the changes in April after a purported crime surge)
- stefan_ 6y ago"search warrant sacklers" 0 results It's hard to make a case for something being prosecuted in good faith if there is never any attempt at using the tools that are otherwise so vastly abused in prosecuting the most meaningless "crimes".
- stallmanite 6y agoVery good point. People suspected of far less serious crimes based on far more tenuous “evidence” get their door kicked in, their kids rooms flashbanged, dogs shot, etc.
- Frondo 6y agoNew York has not eliminated cash bail. https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+cash+bail https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+cash+bail
- autisticcurio 6y agoSlavery just evolved and got clever at hiding the fact by calling itself Capitalism & Democracy.
- edgyquant 6y agoBoth of those predate the abolition of slavery
- autisticcurio 6y agoExactly it never went away. You voluntarily support discrimination in the form of exam results, when your rulers have no qualifications other that being popular or birth right. You must be stupid for continuing to support such a system. At least I'm trying to point out the stupidity, but someone people dont like it, or rather dont like the way its pointed out.
- anm89 6y agoOk so maybe improve the laws instead of burning down the entire legal system? I mean even if you want to burn down the entire legal system you are never going to get that without a very bloody revolution.